Al Gore Believes Reopening Will be ‘Botched’ and Says Trump ‘Engaging in Magical Thinking Again’

It seems that there is no end to the politicians coming out of the woodwork to criticize President Trump and his response to the Coronavirus. Failed Democrat Presidental candidate and Climate doomsdayer Al Gore has added his name to the list.

“He has failed as President, particularly on this challenge. The warnings were ignored.” Former Vice President Al Gore says President Trump and his administration have failed to properly handle the Covid-19 pandemic. #CNNTownHall

“He has failed as President, particularly on this challenge. The warnings were ignored.”

Former Vice President Al Gore says President Trump and his administration have failed to properly handle the Covid-19 pandemic. #CNNTownHall https://t.co/BNNfapZSWp pic.twitter.com/jPPfFQlVa2

— CNN (@CNN) May 8, 2020

Just like he has said with climate change, “I think we’re in grave danger,” Gore said while speaking to Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta in an appearance yesterday on CNN.

On why he believes this, Gore told them, “I think that we are seeing the start of a botched reopening. I think that the President appears to be engaging in magical thinking again. And what I mean by that is, you know, a couple of months ago he said one day it’s just going to magically disappear.”

He continued, “It seems as if he may be recklessly rolling the dice hoping that he can goose the economy just enough in the third quarter of this year to enhance his reelection prospects, hoping that he can divert the blame for the extra tens of thousands of Americans who the doctors tell us will die as a result of this and blame it on the Chinese or former President Obama or whoever instead of doing what a president needs to do.”

Touting his own record as a former Vice President, he said “The warnings were ignored. I spent eight years starting every single day with a lengthy report from the intelligence committee, and there were very few occasions where there was a stark warning about grave danger to the country, and whenever there was such an occasion, we stopped and said, hold the show here. Get the FBI. Get the CIA. Get whoever was involved over. We need to learn about this.”

Gore and the Clinton administration were never faced with a pandemic of this magnitude though. The worst diseases that they had to battle were never as transmittable as this one or as global.